I recently installed a new motherboard into my computer (ASRock z77 Extreme4) and am receiving messages that say to install the driver for 'Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller' Any idea what this might be, or where I could install it?
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Pros: + 6-Core AMD CPU
+ Decent video card
+ Less than $500
Cons: - Windows 8?
Other Thoughts: The machine has held together and is used to play some games at medium-high settings. Would highly recommend as a cheap desktop solution
Pros: Good speed overall
Cons: Only ran less than 90 days! Just long enough to be out of any recourse. This is the worst result for any purchase I have ever made at Neweeg! The box stopped sending a video signal. I changed video cards, no improvement! It's the motherboard! I now have a $404 paper weight. I would advise not to purchase any HP refurbished products.
Other Thoughts: I have been buying from Newegg for almost 20 years and this is my first one star review! 30 days waranty to thourghly test a product is a joke! If HP has no more confidence in their products than that, they shouldent put them on the market!
Pros: Fast, quiet
Cons: Out of stock. I wanted to buy another one.
Other Thoughts: This machine is awesome. I have had it 3 mos and work it hard. I have no complaints. It runs everything I can throw at it and fast! If you can't get this one buy the Hp Envy1450 that has more ram and 2 Gig Video. Hp has done a fantastic job with these Envy machines!
I have owned a lot of machines since the inception of the PC - I rate these machines as high as I rate Toshiba and Asus Laptops. Thank you NewEgg for making these available.
Pros: This is a nice desktop, with plenty of cpu, memory, and disk. It seems well designed and constructed. It's easy to open and work inside. The DVI and HDMI video outputs work nicely. The sound is good.
Cons: Getting Linux installed was more difficult than expected. There's not a lot of information out on the web yet on installing Linux with UEFI systems.
With Secure Boot disabled in setup, I had trouble getting the disk repartitioned. I think they may not have tested the firmware well enough in that mode. Unfortunately, you must turn off Secure Boot in Setup in order to use 3rd party, or self-compiled, drivers with Linux (ie VirtualBox).
The trick that seemed to work for me was to reset Setup to factory defaults, and install Fedora 19 (I couldn't get Ubuntu 13.04 to work, and it reportedly has a bug with UEFI). Once it was installed, I reentered setup, and disabled secure boot.
Other Thoughts: The system has 4 memory slots. Three were in use, with 2 x 4GB and 1 x 2GB. I had to remove the 2Gb stick to add two more 4GB modules. That was expected, but 10GB seems like an odd amount of memory.
Like other recent HP tower desktops, the top is plastic, and the wifi antenna is inside the top. The power button is on the top. There are also a couple usb ports on the front top, facing backwards. So you can't really set things on top of it.
Pros: Turns on and off, drowns out television commercials with fan noise. Briefly runs Windows 8, before locking up.
Cons: This PC will not boot from a USB drive running Linux. Too loud to use as a media center PC, as the CPU and GPU fans run at high speed at all times. USB ports facing backwards, and unless guarded against, will be damaged at some point.
Other Thoughts: I bought this PC to run a dual boot setup of Windows 8 and Kubuntu Linux. It will NOT boot from a bootable USB flash drive. It either errors out immediately or attempts to load briefly and then errors out. Multiple USB flash drives were tested, all with successful hash checks. Booting from the optical drive was *almost* successful, as it loaded the live disc but failed when an install was attempted. My 7 year old Dell XPS 410 ran this setup with no problems, and I'm starting to wish I hadn't sold it... This machine is currently in HP's hands so hopefully they can figure out the issue this time around. Personally I would stay away from refurbished HP PCs, as they obviously didn't catch the issue I'm experiencing during the refurb process. This particular model has also been discontinued (only about a year old, at that..) so I'm guessing these models have reliability issues in general. I won't be purchasing a refurbished item from Newegg in the future.
Pros: price point
Cons: Slow, the response time for this pc using 3 different browsers were very slow. Going to repeat websites with cached information to speed up loading and using the pc at varying times during the day.. I have returned this model and will be getting the Intel i7 series model
Other Thoughts: it is refurbished but i have purchase other items this way with no issues
Pros: Excellent hardware, very fast. USB ports (2.0 & 3.0) very accessible on front of PC.
Cons: Hate Windows 8. I don't think 8.1 will be any better. HP support site doesn't have drivers for any windows version execpt 8.
Other Thoughts: I can recommend PC to anyone who will put up with Windows 8.
Pros: Price, Speed, Quiet
Cons: None
Other Thoughts: Overall, a very fast machine. Win 8 boots quick. Installed Start8 until Win 8.1 is released. Machine runs very quiet, doesn't get too hot and resume from sleep quickly. Plenty of USB ports. If you were to install a SSD as the boot drive, this thing would run circles around $1500 computers.